In general there is a lack of long-term success in treating people with persistent musculoskeletal pain and long-term anterior knee pain or patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS), is no exception [1]. It is reported that approximately 25% of patients with PFPS continue to have pain and dysfunction one year or more after physiotherapy, the most … [Read more...]

The breast itself has limited support of its own and as a result moves during activity. This can result in exercise related breast pain, experienced by up to 70% of exercising women [1]. We surveyed 1,285 female marathon runners [2] taking part in the 2012 London Marathon whose bra cup sizes ranged from an AA cup to an H cup, and underband … [Read more...]

Every day, around the world, clinicians and scientists are working hard to better understand and treat chronic pain. Important advances are being made every day. However, many people are left to live with chronic pain and to manage its impact on their day-to-day lives. For many people this can also lead to feelings of frustration, stress, anxiety, … [Read more...]

It’s something that almost five million Australians live with every day.
One person in every four. That’s someone you know, or maybe it’s you.
But despite this statistic, there remains a general reluctance by many to discuss the nature and gravity of these problems. While the life-altering issues experienced with continence concerns can be … [Read more...]

Continued from previous post
... All is not lost, however. There is an emerging body of literature that suggests that we can change the way people understand their pain. We can reconceptualize pain in a way that makes clear the distinction between tissue damage, nociception and pain. The bulk of the work in this area is guided by a model that … [Read more...]

A frank approach to interpersonal communication brings with it some challenges, but having to dig oneself out of a hole, created by strategically avoiding the truth, is not one of them. This frank approach is well suited to science – the scientific process requires us to pursue and report the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We do … [Read more...]

This story of a 28 year old man with disabling low back pain illustrates the CB-CFT intervention trialled in the RCT in Bergen, Norway.
‘Eight years ago I had a lifting injury at work. It was terrible pain, I was worried so I went to the doctor who ordered a scan. The doctor said I had a back of a 70 year old. He said I couldn’t surf again and or … [Read more...]

It was in 2005 that I came up with the idea of a “gaze direction recognition" (GDR) task as a possible treatment for chronic neck pain. At that time some of the rehabilitation patients visiting my rehabilitation department had suffered from neck pain for a long time because of cervical strain or previous cervical spine surgery. In those days, such … [Read more...]

Continued from Eric's A Painful Yarn part one
......So, what did I notice? First, the adrenaline that accompanied the accident was wearing off. I could feel moment-by-moment discomfort and tension increasing in my right ankle and left knee as they swelled. I also got the sense that my body wanted movement. I found myself doing the proverbial … [Read more...]

I was riding my bike on my normal route to work. Then it happened, like a blink. A jeep that was not supposed to be there was there, coming at me. No time to change course or apply brakes, just brace for impact.
I was headed west bound on a two lane road. Entering a light controlled intersection on a green light. A Jeep Cherokee in the opposing … [Read more...]

Lorimer is coming to York!

In this first course in the UK for several years, Lorimer will lead you through his 'highlights of pain' tour, visiting the conceptual underpinnings of modern pain rehabilitation, cutting edge pain-related cognitive and clinical neuroscience, critical pain-related thinking, clinical reasoning and treatment principles.

From Painful Yarns, to Explaining Pain Better, to Biologically Based Graded Exposure, the Cortical Body Matrix and the Imprecision Hypothesis, it will be intense, but it will also be scientifically sound, evidence based, clinically applicable and fun!
WHEN: 20 – 21 May 2015
WHERE: National Science Learning Centre, University of York
Reserve your place: joanna@noigroup.com, phone +44(0) 1904737919

David Butler | Bob Coghill | Lorimer Moseley | Kevin Vowles

Registrations are OPEN

for probably the best little pain meeting in the world - PainAdelaide 2015, March 30th 2015, at the Adelaide Convention Centre.

Prof Bob Coghill, a world leader on the neurophysiology and neuroimaging of pain, including mindfulness and mediation effects, section editor for the poshest journal in our field - PAIN.Prof Glen King, one of the most important molecular scientists in the country, Glenn does fascinating work extracting venoms from spiders, scorpions and the like and using them to develop novel drugs to treat chronic pain. He has a habit of publishing in very posh journals and is a fabulous presenter.Prof Peter O’Sullivan, one of the planet’s most innovative and enthusiastic clinical scientists, consistently ranked by Expertscape in the top 10 low back pain researchers on the planet. Peter will share his immense clinical insights and research discoveries.A/Prof Stuart Brierley, a world authority on inflammation and the gut and at the forefront of innovative interdisciplinary methods to develop new treatments for inflammatory bowel syndrome.Prof Kevin Vowles, one of the leading experts internationally on the application of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to the management of people in pain.Dr Jim Hearn, scriptwriter and chef, author of the acclaimed High Season, an account of his painful journey into and out of heroin addiction - 2015’s Left-field presenter..Register here

APS 2015

Call for abstracts and scholarship applications

The IASP’s Pain, Mind and Movement SIG and South African chapter will host a congress from 22-24 May 2015, in Johannesburg, South Africa. See the Pain Congress for details and to submit an abstract by 27 March 2015, and see this document for the details of two scholarships being offered by the Pain, Mind and Movement SIG (applications close on February 28th).

Applications due for European Pain School 2015

Young scientists from all countries at the PhD or post-doc levels (or equivalent) in all fields of pain science and pain medicine are encouraged to apply to attend the European Pain School 2015.
The deadline is February 6 for the IASP-sponsored educational program, which runs June 7-14 in Siena, Italy.

Awareness of our physical ability is critically important when we decide on what actions to take. Can I reach that far?, Can I walk on that path?, Can I step that high? This is particularly important for older people whose physical function declines with age and who are at increased risk of falls (Lord et […]

Siobhan Moylan, a science and media communicator at Neuroscience Research Australia, recently conducted this insightful interview with Professor Simon Gandevia. In the interview, Professor Gandevia talks at length about motor impairment, which is the focus of a recent NHMRC Program Grant entitled ‘Motor Impairment: basic and applied human neurophysiology’. The post Interview with Professor […]

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